Bangladesh is seventh among the 10 countries worst hit by extreme weather events, says a global climate report.

India’s cabinet yesterday approved a bill to give citizenship to religious minorities persecuted in neighbouring Muslim countries -- the first time that the country is seeking to grant nationality on the basis of religion.

The skies of Bangladesh were freed on the third day of the relentless war. Almost all of the Pakistani aircrafts were destroyed or distressed. Indian fighter jets bombed Pakistani bases all day long, stopping activities at the airports.

Saudi King Salman has invited Qatar’s emir to a meeting next week of the Gulf regional bloc in Riyadh, Qatari state media said Tuesday, without specifying if Doha had accepted.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson denied yesterday that he was avoiding being pictured with Donald Trump ahead of a UK election next week, as footage emerged of other leaders mocking the US president.

At least four people are known to have died after a powerful typhoon ripped through the Philippines, officials said yesterday, with high-speed winds prompting large-scale evacuations, tearing off roofs and shutting down Manila airport.

Australia’s conservative government yesterday repealed a contentious law that allowed ill asylum-seekers languishing in Papua New Guinea and on Nauru to travel to the country for medical treatment.

Police in Hong Kong this week re-entered the campus of a university it besieged for more than 10 days last month, gathering newly discovered chemicals and petrol bombs hoarded by anti-government protesters in the Chinese-ruled city.

Iraqi politicians and their regional allies gathered in Baghdad on Tuesday to discuss how to resolve two months of protests that brought down the government, as violence hit southern cities.

North Korean media yesterday published fresh pictures of leader Kim Jong Un riding a white horse on a sacred mountain, imagery that experts say is heavy with symbolism and may indicate a policy announcement.

Relief materials, distributed among Rohingya refugees at Cox’s Bazar camps, were found being sold in Bandarbazar area of Sylhet city.

No one except Bangladeshis would be allowed to enter the country, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday said about recent “trespassing” of people from India.

This decade is set to be the hottest in history, the United Nations said yesterday in an annual assessment outlining the ways in which climate change is outpacing humanity’s ability to adapt to it.

The top authorities of Biman Bangladesh Airlines had clearly instructed its officials to realise an additional charge for handling each kilogram of incoming and outgoing cargo carried by non-scheduled freighters.

She was among the women who had fought shoulder to shoulder with their male counterparts for establishing the right to speak in the mother tongue -- Bangla.

Violating the border rules, Indian Border Security Force has set up a temporary watch post in the no-man’s land at Shahebnagar frontier of Rajshahi’s Godagari upazila.

Trains cancelled, schools closed: France yesterday scrambled to make contingency plans for a huge strike against pension overhauls that poses one of the biggest challenges yet to President Emmanuel Macron’s sweeping reform drive.

A woman and her seven-year-old daughter were killed in a road accident in Joypurhat Sadar upazila yesterday morning.

The war that has ravaged Yemen has especially impacted the country’s estimated 4.5 million people living with disabilities, Amnesty International warned in a report yesterday.

The Human Rights Watch has called on the Bangladesh government to lift the restrictions which are “violating the right to education” of Rohingya children.